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The Women’s March and black erasure </div>
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<a href="/content/kenna-orourke">Kenna O&#039;Rourke</a> </div>
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<figure><img class="imagefield imagefield-field_image_feature" title="“One marcher from Chicago, Cheryl Thomas-Porter, summed up the communitarian, participatory, and engaged nature of the march in an interview with CNN: ‘This march is us. We made this march. … The march is the contribution of every single woman of African descent.’” Above: marchers gathered on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on October 25, 1997, for the Million Woman March in Philadelphia." alt="" src="https://jacket2.org/sites/jacket2.org/files/Art_O%27Rourke_ST.jpg?1523374614" /><figcaption>“One marcher from Chicago, Cheryl Thomas-Porter, summed up the communitarian, participatory, and engaged nature of the march in an interview with CNN: ‘This march is us. We made this march. … The march is the contribution of every single woman of African descent.’” Above: marchers gathered on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on October 25, 1997, for the Million Woman March in Philadelphia.</figcaption></figure> </div>
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<p><span>Feminista Jones opened&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.pscp.tv/w/1BRJjVQZNnNJw">her speech at the January 21, 2017, Philadelphia Women’s March</a><span>&nbsp;by reminding the crowd that the erasure of black women’s voices by white feminism is antithetical to feminism itself: “I am a black feminist, and they need to have at least one of them in this space, cause y’all don’t have feminism without us.”</span></p>
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<p>Feminista Jones opened <a href="https://www.pscp.tv/w/1BRJjVQZNnNJw">her speech at the January 21, 2017, Philadelphia Women’s March</a> by reminding the crowd that the erasure of black women’s voices by white feminism is antithetical to feminism itself: “I am a black feminist, and they need to have at least one of them in this space, cause y’all don’t have feminism without us.” Jones — a Philadelphia-based activist, social worker, and writer whose work revolves around poverty alleviation, the fight against hunger, sex positivity, and mental health advocacy — had been early to point out that</p>
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